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  Xi Jinping  inspects military parade on party’s 90th anniversary:

Chinese  President Xi Jinping on Sunday inspected  a massive military parade at the country's largest  military base in Zhurihe in Inner Mongolia.

 This was part of the celebrations  to mark the 90th founding anniversary of the 2.3 million-strong  People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Clad in camouflage military suit , 64-year-old Xi stood in an open-roof jeep that drove slowly  past formations of troops  as military music  was being played through loudspeaker.

The PLA was founded on August 1, 1927 when the ruling CPC under the leadership of Mao Zedong carried on with his national liberation movement.

The parade was held in the backdrop of over month long standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at Doklam in Sikkim section.